SINITIC

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sinitic mean? 

• SINITIC (noun)
  The noun SINITIC has 1 sense:

1. a group of Sino-Tibetan languages

  Familiarity information: SINITIC used as a noun is very rare.

• SINITIC (adjective)
  The adjective SINITIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture

  Familiarity information: SINITIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINITIC (noun)

Meaning:

A group of Sino-Tibetan languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Sinitic; Sinitic language

Hypernyms ("Sinitic" is a kind of...):

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sinitic"):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

• SINITIC (adjective)

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Sinitic dialects

Pertainym:

Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)